Irish Rentals Market

Irish Rentals Market — Python scraping and Tableau dashboard project analysing 2,555 rental listings
Python Selenium Tableau Analytics Web Scraping Data Analysis Dashboard
2024

Dataset

2,555 Total listings scraped
96% Listings priced between €500 and €4,700
66% Listings in and around County Dublin
28% Higher mean rent near major cities vs other counties
€2,228 Mean rent in the Dublin area

Objective

Explore the Irish rental market ahead of moving to Ireland, and sharpen Tableau dashboarding skills by building an interactive dashboard from real, scraped data rather than a sample dataset.

Approach

Scraped real-time rental listings from daft.ie and myhome.ie in September 2024 using two separate Python/Selenium scrapers. The two sites required different approaches: the daft.ie scraper applied cleaning functions after extraction; the myhome.ie scraper integrated cleaning directly into the extraction pipeline.

The combined dataset of 2,555 listings was loaded into Tableau for analysis and visualisation. The dashboard includes filters for county and property type, with all charts and maps updating dynamically.

Key findings

  • 66% of all listings were in and around County Dublin, reflecting how concentrated the Irish rental market is
  • Rent-to-income ratio in major city areas: approximately 35% for a dual-income couple (mean income €6,380 / mean rent €2,228)
  • Mean rent near major cities (Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway): €2,159, which is 28% higher than other counties at €1,690
  • Furnished properties averaged €2,210/month vs. €1,355 for unfurnished
  • Dominant property types were House, Apartment, and Flat: 2,407 out of 2,555 listings
Python/Selenium scraper code for daft.ie rental listings
daft.ie scraper
Python/Selenium scraper code for myhome.ie rental listings
myhome.ie scraper
Box plot showing the price distribution of Irish rental listings
Price distribution
Chart showing mean rental prices in counties around major Irish cities (Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway)
Rentals around major cities
Chart showing mean rental prices in Irish counties excluding major city areas
Rentals excluding major cities
Chart comparing mean rent for furnished versus unfurnished rental properties in Ireland
Furnished vs unfurnished
Chart showing that the majority of listings fall into House, Apartment, and Flat categories
Listings by property type
Chart showing rental listing counts across all property types in Ireland
All property types
Interactive Tableau dashboard showing Irish rental market data with filters for county and property type
Interactive Tableau dashboard

Live dashboard

The full interactive Tableau dashboard is publicly available. Filter by county and property type to explore the data.

View the Tableau dashboard →